OTHER PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES
“IL PORTICO” has been working on specific projects for many years. Generally, the projects are planned on the basis of activities that started autonomously and that require to be structured, organised, re-thought and funded. They concern various fields of intervention: entertaining, welcoming, hospitality, promotion, education. They involve various institutional referents. Some projects have been concluded while other ones are being still defined through activities characterising the daily and long-term commitment of the association.
The projects’ names summarize the purposes of each intervention:
- “Bruzzico” (the light before sunrise) was designed in favour of some young ex-jailed people who, in the critical moment of obtaining their freedom, find themselves without any home, any constructive relationship and any job.
- “Passo Lungo” (“Long Step” – The distance and the gap leading towards freedom) is a project concerning the reception of minor offenders, considered an alternative to prison. Thanks to this project a group of lawyers was gathered, in order to offer unpaid legal assistance and counselling about legal problems of people involved in the projects, either for penal or civil charges.
- “Akim” (common welcoming to the immigrants) was designed because of the need of hosting immigrants, in order to promote a real integration in the thorny moment of their first approach to the italian culture.
- “Musichall” (harmony of solidarity) and “INCìDi” (“Record!”), consist in activities of promotion of voluntarism among young people in the territory of Riviera del Brenta. They involve the spaces of the music hall, the space for the CDd mixing and recording and the multimedia room, which are situated in the premises of the association.
- “Origami” (the origins of friendship through the game) aims to create relationships of friendship among differently-able people, in recreational contexts.
- “A spasso per l’Europa” (“Walking around in Europe”) we provide some opportunities of approaching the many possibilities offered by the EU to young people, to their associations and to other protagonists of the world of youth. A particular attention is paid to socially-excluded or disadvantaged people.
In order to check and improve the projects, we are creating a group of study evaluating legal aspects and exploring new opportunities of development. Therefore, projects represent a moment of reflection and re-organization; they are a sort of “answer” that the association gives to situations of emergency, in order to confer continuity and professionalism to the interventions that have been already put into effects.
Also the multimedia and multitasking room, beyond offering proper means for the access to services, was born with the purpose of creating new relationships among different people having in common the interest of informatics and other socializing opportunities. Usually, the room is used for different activities (movies, courses, political and educational seminars) and by different social groups.
The association offers its premises for meetings, lectures, seminars, parties and celebrations of other associations, groups and people who want to book them, and who have adopted a lifestyle characterised by our awareness and purposes of social integration. For the use of the premises during night-time, 15 volunteers have organized shifts in order to open, manage and close the rooms (multimedia and musical rooms).